User guide

Advanced drawing techniques
The advanced features help you save time or let you perform functions that simply can’t be accomplished using the
basic tools. For example, you can see your drawing as 3D models or create stereoisomers at the click of the mouse.
Using other features, you can:
Add bonds to characters in atom labels
Create bonds whose attachment is not explicitly defined
Add atom numbers
Contract and expand sections of structures
View structure perspective
Create mass fragmentation, retrosynthesis, and synthesis drawings
Draw with templates
Create and edit templates
Label functional groups with nicknames.
Coloring objects
You can select and color objects, part or all of a chemical structure, boxes, curves, arrows, orbitals and reaction mech-
anism symbols.
To color an object:
1. Select the object.
2. Do one of the following:
Click the Color button on the Style toolbar, and select the color from the menu that appears.
Choose a color from the Color menu.
Right-click and select the color from the context menu.
Go to Object>Object Settings and select the color in the Drawing tab. Click OK when finished.
Coloring groups
ChemBioDraw colors groups differently from integral groups. When you color an integral group, its objects acquire the
new color but retain the original shading. When you color a normal group, the new color is applied and the original shad-
ing is ignored.
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